RPC IV.4, 834

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 834
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year Η = 8
Dating AD 144/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλ(ιος) Ἁδρ(ιανὸς) Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσ(εβής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription
Reverse design zodiac: jugate busts of Sarapis and Isis, left, within two circles of signs of zodiac anticlockwise with Aries at top, each sign coinciding
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 25.14 g
Axis 12
Reference D 2983 (= DS 2984), pl. XXVI (rev.)
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1862,0614.257 BMC 1078, pl. XII (rev.)
2 2     Brussels: 2004-162 D 2984 (Figari - Mosconi 749)
3 3     Baldwin’s The New York Sale XVII, 9 Jan. 2008, lot 144
4 4     Bankhaus Aufhäuser 7 (9. 10. 1990), 464
5 5     ✸ CNG Triton XXVI, 10 Jan. 2023, lot 585
6 6     John Work Garrett Collection (Part III, Numismatic Fine Arts/Bank Leu, 29 Mar. 1985), lot 484k (part of) = M&M Numismatics, Ltd I (7 Dec. 1997), lot 296 = SAN 4 (1972–3), 47 (John Hopkins University) = CNA 13 (4. 12. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 157 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 124 (Staffieri)